NHC AL021880 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1880
August 4, 1880 – August 14, 1880
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1880 storm peaked at Category 4 with 150 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 44 US cities, 36 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1880 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1880 (AL021880) for 11 days, from August 4, 1880 to August 14, 1880. Its first position, at 16.0°N 59.8°W, records it as a tropical storm; its last, at 31.0°N 101.0°W, as a tropical depression. Its peak was 150 mph (130 knots), Category 4, on August 13, and its lowest central pressure was 931 millibars on August 13. It spent about 6 days at hurricane strength. HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on August 13 at 150 mph (Category 4), 24 miles from South Padre Island, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 44 US cities, all in Texas, between August 13 and August 14. The strongest pass was 139 mph (Category 4) 14 miles from South Padre Island, TX; the centre came closest to Edinburg, TX, less than a mile away. 36 of the cities had it at hurricane strength at the closest point, 13 at major-hurricane strength. It reached more US cities than 15% of the 737 storms on this site, and ranks 6th of the 6 storms of 1880 here.
- Peak strength
- Category 4
- Cities within 75 mi
- 44
- At hurricane strength
- 36
- States
- 1
150 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1880 storm passed near, strongest first
Texas (44)
- South Padre IslandCategory 4 · 14 mi
- Port IsabelCategory 4 · 9 mi
- BrownsvilleCategory 4 · 6 mi
- Los FresnosCategory 4 · 5 mi
- OlmitoCategory 4 · 3 mi
- San BenitoCategory 3 · overhead
- Rio HondoCategory 3 · 12 mi
- HarlingenCategory 3 · 3 mi
- La FeriaCategory 3 · 3 mi
- LyfordCategory 3 · 15 mi
- Santa RosaCategory 3 · 4 mi
- MercedesCategory 3 · 4 mi
- ProgresoCategory 3 · 11 mi
- RaymondvilleCategory 2 · 19 mi
- La VillaCategory 2 · 4 mi
- ElsaCategory 2 · 1 mi
- EdcouchCategory 2 · 5 mi
- DonnaCategory 2 · 9 mi
- AlamoCategory 2 · 10 mi
- WeslacoCategory 2 · 3 mi
- San JuanCategory 2 · 10 mi
- PharrCategory 2 · 10 mi
- HidalgoCategory 2 · 17 mi
- EdinburgCategory 2 · overhead
- McallenCategory 2 · 10 mi
- AltonCategory 1 · 2 mi
- MissionCategory 1 · 11 mi
- PenitasCategory 1 · 14 mi
- La JoyaCategory 1 · 16 mi
- Sullivan CityCategory 1 · 16 mi
- Rio Grande CityCategory 1 · 10 mi
- FalfurriasCategory 1 · 53 mi
- PremontCategory 1 · 63 mi
- RomaCategory 1 · 18 mi
- HebbronvilleCategory 1 · 31 mi
- San DiegoCategory 1 · 72 mi
- ZapataTropical storm · 2 mi
- LaredoTropical storm · 21 mi
- CotullaTropical storm · 74 mi
- Carrizo SpringsTropical storm · 50 mi
- Crystal CityTropical storm · 58 mi
- Eagle PassTropical storm · 29 mi
- BrackettvilleTropical storm · 50 mi
- Del RioTropical storm · 27 mi
Other storms of the 1880 season
- Unnamed (AL011880)Tropical storm · 59 cities
- Unnamed (AL041880)Category 2 · 375 cities
- Unnamed (AL061880)Category 1 · 310 cities
- Unnamed (AL091880)Category 1 · 187 cities
- Unnamed (AL111880)Tropical storm · 254 cities
About this record
The track is the National Hurricane Center's best-track record, revised after the season with every observation available. Strength at a city is the sustained wind on the track at the closest point, not the wind that city measured.